Street sign



R. H. STORER May 1, 1934.

STREET SIGN Filed March 13, 1933 M, m m w.

RichordHenqy Store ATTOR Patented May 1, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE STREET SIGN Application March 13,

3 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in street signs, and has for an object to provide a street sign which is legible by day and also made legible by night by illumination from the street lamp on 5 the post to which the sign is fastened.

Another object of my improvement is to provide a street sign designed for simple construction of durable materials at a relatively small cost.

Other objects of my improvement will appear as the description proceeds.

I attain these and other objects of my improvement with the device illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an obverse view in side elevation of my street sign, Fig. 2 is an end elevation of Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a reverse view in side elevation of the sign.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout. Certain parts are broken away to show other parts hidden thereby.

With more particular reference to the designated parts: As illustrated the metal sheet used for the sign is folded on parallel lines providing the obverse leaf 4, the reverse leaf and the intervening leaves 6 and 7. The bottom fold between leaves 4 and 6 is shown at 9, the bottom fold between leaves 5 and 7 is shown at and the top fold between leaves 6 and 7 is shown at 8. Preferably, the bottom folds 9 and 10 are provided with the drainage openings 11.

The leaves 6 and '7 could be pressed closely together. But by separating them, as shown, space is provided for fastening to the sign a post-attachment arm, such as the L-shape piece 12, 13; the part 13 of which is disposed between the leaves 6 and 7 and fastened thereto, while the extended arm 12 may be fastened to a pole attachment.

The illustrated shape of the attachment 12, 13 is not shown as one which is, in general, suitable for fastening to a pole bracket or clamp, but rather to indicate the adaptableness of the sign for fastening to any pole attachment.

The obverse and reverse leaves 4 and 5, that is the outside leaves, have the letters, spelling the street to be indicated by the sign, punched therein stencil-wise. The street name, H O W E, chosen for the illustration, is shown on the leaf 4 by the punched letters H, O, W, E at 14, 15, 16 and 17 respectively. Each of the punched letters, preferably, is lined by a white margin a14, a15, a16 and al'l. The color of the remaining area of the outside surface of the leaf is some dark color.

The same street name is shown on the leaf 1933, Serial No. 660,528

5 by the punched letters H, O, W, E at 18, 19, 20 and 21 respectively. Each of these punched letters also has a white margin as shown at (118, 0,19, (020 and a21. The remaining area of the outside surface of the leaf 5 is in some dark color. The inside surfaces of the leaves 4 and 5 as well as the inside surfaces of the leaves 6 and 7, preferably, are white.

This street sign is fastened endwise to a street lamp post disposed horizontally with the flaring edge up.

During daylight the letters are shown by the bordering white and by the white background provided by the white surfaces of the middle leaves 6 and 7 as seen through the punched letters. During darkness the entire areas of the interior surfaces of the structure are illuminated by light from the street lamp above thus making the punched letters legible.

The particular shape of the folded plate used from which to make my street signs may be changed without affecting their usefulness. For instance, a single leaf may replace the central folded leaves 6 and '7 and be fastened to the outer leaves 4 and 5 along the lower edges thereof. Also, in some cases, the central leaf may be dispensed with using only the upwardly flaring leaves 4 and 5 in V shape.

The disclosed shape is preferred for simplicity, strength, ease of forming and fastening to the supporting structures.

In practice, I prefer to make these signs of sheet metal, punched with the particular street names, bent and then enameled with the desired light and dark colors as described.

Having thus disclosed my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. A street sign including two outer leaves diverging upwardly each having the letters of the name of a street punched therethrough, and an intervening leaf being joined at its. bottom edge with the bottom edges of the said outer leaves, the said punched letters being outlined in a light color on the outer surfaces of the outer leaves the remainder of the said outer surfaces being in a dark color, the inner surfaces of the said outer leaves and both surfaces of the intervening leaf being of a light color.

2. A street sign plate shaped by folding the same on a medial line fiatwise together and bending the ends of the plate outwardly on lines parallel with the said medial line providing two adjacent middle leaves on a close top fold and two outer leaves on bottom folds divergent less than 90 from the said middle leaves, the outer leaves having the letters of a street name punched therethrough and the inner leaves being of a light color.

3. A street sign including a plate shaped by folding the same on a medial line flatwise together and bending the ends thereof outwardly on lines parallel with the said medial line providing two adjacent middle leaves on an upper fold and two outer leaves on bottom folds di- 

